We’re taking on our biggest challenge yet on YouTube! Will we regret this? Why are we doing this?
It all gets a bit too much for Iz… Come with us on the ferry from the UK to France as we start our biggest ever road trip! It’s a whirlwind of emotions!
Who are we? 💁🏼♀️
We’re Tom and Iz, who live and travel in our van La Bamba. We’ve spent the last 7 months exploring Scotland, Ireland and some of Wales. We’ve been in our home county Cornwall for a few weeks and now we are getting the van ready to head into Europe for a big road trip with no end date and no real plan! We upload a weekly vlog on a Sunday at 5pm with all our recent escapades. Subscribe and join us for weekly adventures!
You might find Tom in the forest IDing a mushroom, fixing something or starting a wild project whereas you could find Isabel sunning herself on a beach, running around coming up with different ideas or cooking up a storm. Tom is calm and methodical in his approach, whilst Isabel has endless enthusiasm, positivity and frantic energy. We are total opposites but it works!
Van Computer Set-up 🖥
Mac Mini- https://amzn.to/3McHUXG (this is the refurbished link – we bought this but they are currently unavailable – here is the link to the new version https://amzn.to/3Mouwzs)
Bracket- https://amzn.to/3FBvaHs
Keyboard – https://amzn.to/3N8PsKY
Mouse – https://amzn.to/39NzJT4
Harddrive – https://amzn.to/3yBgkiB
Headset – https://amzn.to/3yCxm00
Our Vlogging Gear 📸
Canon main camera -https://amzn.to/3KRAB6a
GoPro – https://amzn.to/3KP9GYK
Mic – https://amzn.to/3KPJEo0
Tripod – https://amzn.to/3KMjen7
Drone – https://amzn.to/3Mbip8X
Camera bag – https://amzn.to/3wdsFrT
Inside the van 🚐
Fridge – https://amzn.to/38uRJ4l
Paddleboard – https://amzn.to/3vRlJk1
Customised Paddleboard – https://goosehillsport.com/?ref=NiHHXcEa
Projector – https://amzn.to/3l49Ocm
Projector pull down screen – https://amzn.to/3szma01
Internet mobile wifi router – https://amzn.to/3NfqaL0
Magnetic aerials to stick on the roof – https://amzn.to/38lFx6b
How did we end up here?! 😁 ⏮
We met 10 years ago when we were both finishing our A-levels and had a whirlwind summer romance, hitch-hiking around France together before before going our separate ways to travel and to university. Little did we know we just weren’t going to get each other out of our minds!
We’ve both always prioritised travel and adventure and have worked hard over the years in hospitality jobs to enable us to keep exploring. Tom hitch-hiked across Europe and road tripped around Australia whilst Iz studied Environmental Science at York. Iz backpacked around South America with her sister whilst Tom studied Forestry at Aberdeen University. Fast forward 4 years later and we found ourselves still thinking of each other and both back in Cornwall. We thought life is too short to wonder what if and moved to Cambridge together whilst Iz tried her hand at a graduate job and Tom worked in a cafe. It didn’t take us long to realise that we didn’t suit the 9-5 and yearned for something more active and outdoors where we could spend more time together.
We got ourselves a campsite warden jobs on an eco-campsite in Scotland and lived in a bell tent in a wild flower meadow for 6 months. This really solidified our want to live outdoors as much as possible amongst nature! Then the summer drew to a close and feeling a bit lost as to what to do, we decided to train to be secondary science teachers. Whilst we were training to teach (and not enjoying it), we bought out van very spontaneously; it represented freedom and escapism! We made it our mission to convert the van, move in to it, and travel so we could live more simply and more freely.
Since then Iz managed to get a remote work-from-home job that she could do from the van and Tom was passionate about starting up a YouTube channel. Now we are giving it our best shot to do YouTube full time. We have a dream of one day owning a little plot of land and building ourselves a cabin in the woods. We are currently travelling in our van and are thoroughly enjoying making vlogs and bringing you along with us! If you’re new around here you can check out our previous videos; we’ve been uploading weekly videos for the last 9 months.
Thank you for taking the time to check out our channel, it means a lot to us! 🌼
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Iz and Tom 🙂